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China Despite rapidly developing and rolling out two vaccines against COVID-19 – from domestic firms Sinopharm and Sinovac – China is yet to approve a vaccine that uses mRNA technology, either from a domestic firm or one of the two international products (Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna) currently approved elsewhere.   As the…

USA Ramona Sequeira, recently appointed chair of the PhRMA board of directors and president of Takeda’s US Business Unit and Global Portfolio Commercialization, gives her take on how the biopharma industry can do more to address the systemic inequities in US healthcare, including community-focused grant programs, clinical trial diversity initiatives, and…

Ukraine Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been roundly condemned by the pharmaceutical industry and almost all Big Pharmas have pledged humanitarian support to Ukraine. However, not all companies have followed the lead of businesses in other industries in severing ties with Russia, citing the importance of continuing to supply essential medicines…

China The latest news from Chinese healthcare and pharma including Western pharmacos’ moves to license therapies from Chinese partners to sell globally, the seismic impact of new COVID lockdown restrictions in major Chinese cities, and the Chinese firms at risk of being delisted in the US if they do not hand…

Spain HIPRA is a world-leading animal health company that has launched a record 22 animal vaccines in the last 10 years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the European company decided to jump into human health with its own vaccine candidate, currently in phase III trials. Carles Fàbrega, managing director of HIPRA’s new…

Global In June 2021, as part of a broader restructuring, Merck (MSD globally) spun off its women’s health, legacy products, and biosimilars businesses. The new company formed, Organon, is positioning itself as “the only player of its size (USD 6.3 billion in revenues for 2021, 9,000 employees) focused on women’s health…

Spain Robert Fabregat, CEO of Biocat, explains how health start-ups in the BioRegion of Catalonia managed to raise a record EUR 238 million in 2021 and why the Spanish region is set to become a hub for advanced therapies and personalized medicine. In addition, the CEO boasts about Cataolina being at…

India Writing in the March 2022 edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Ananya Chakraborty from the Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre outlines the key factors behind India’s successful COVID-19 vaccination program.   January 16, 2022, was a proud day for India. The country achieved the milestone of completing…

Global As the focus of the global COVID-19 pandemic response shifts downstream from the development and production of vaccines to vaccination campaigns themselves, IFPMA Director-General Thomas Cueni lays out the biopharmaceutical industry’s three new overarching priorities: supporting country readiness, contributing to equitable distribution, and driving innovation.   From the early days…

Spain Javier Urzay, deputy director of Farmaindustria, the leading pharma industry association in Spain, discusses the main dynamics shaping the sector, including record levels of R&D investment and clinical trials, their collaboration with European organizations to develop digital capabilities, and the need for better access, investment in manufacturing and increased collaboration…

USA In the wake of Access! 2022, the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM)’s first in-person annual summit in two years, AAM President and CEO Dan Leonard gives his five takeaways from what he describes as a “rich, complex, and provocative” conference.   The generic and biosimilar supply chains continue to demonstrate…

USA A comprehensive list of the US FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation & Research (CDER)’s new drug therapy approvals for 2021. CDER approved 50 new drugs in 2021, down from 53 in 2020, either as new molecular entities (NMEs) under New Drug Applications (NDAs), or as new therapeutic biologics under Biologics…